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Sunday, May 11, 2008
THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS. By Jonathan Coe. Knopf. 240 pages. $23.95. A good story closes with the sound of a box clicking shut. Jonathan Coe carves a lovely box with restraint and rhythm. "The Rain Before it Falls" begins softly with the news of an old English spin...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
WELCOME TO YOUR BRAIN: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. By Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang. Bloomsbury. 211 pages. $24.95.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT. By Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Putnam. 240 pages. $24.95. At what point, exactly, did Kurt Vonnegut Jr. cease to be merely a cleverly soulful novelist and put on the miter of a mournful secular saint? It could have been a function of age (he was 84 w...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
I DON'T BELIEVE IN ATHEISTS. By Chris Hedges. Free Press. 185 pages. $25. Long before April 16, when financial analysts announced that 50 hedge fund managers had a combined income of $29 billion last year in the face of thousands of home foreclosures, Chris Hedges wrote i...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
GIRLS IN TRUCKS. By Katie Crouch. Little Brown. 241 pages. $21.99. Charleston native Katie Crouch has written a first novel, or perhaps a collection of linked short stories, that is sneaky and insinuating — in the best way. What starts as a loopy, rather gener...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus. By Joshua Kendall. Putnam. 304 pages. $25.95. His masterpiece is known by every college student who ever wrote a term paper and every newspaper writer in search of the right word. B...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
OUR STORY BEGINS: New and Selected Stories. By Tobias Wolff. Knopf. 379 pages. $26.95. Tobias Wolff's stories are little acts of homage to the lovely, tawdry world. If the world were better, there'd be no story; if it were worse, there'd be no hope. Somehow, Wolff...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
WILLING. By Scott Spencer. Ecco/HarperCollins. 244 pages. $24.95. Scott Spencer's "Willing" follows Avery Jankowsky, a struggling Manhattan freelance writer, on an expensive, round-the-world sex romp. After his girlfriend, Deirdre Feigenbaum, confesses...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
MUDBOUND. By Hillary Jordan. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 324 pages. $22.95. So, who'll be first in line to make "Mudbound" into a movie or HBO miniseries? It certainly has all the trappings of a good drama: infidelity, poverty, war heroes, World War II ba...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
THE SIXTIES UNPLUGGED: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade. By Gerard J. DeGroot. Harvard University Press. 508 pages. $29.95. With its ability to generate infinite patterns of color and form, each turn resulting in perfect symmetry and organizational lo...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
THE PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE. By James Morrow. Morrow. 432 pages. $25.95. When Mason Ambrose, the whip-smart narrator at the helm of James Morrow's latest oddball sci-fi romp, "The Philosopher's Apprentice," aborts his dissertation on "Darwinian deontology" middefen...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
A BILLION LIVES: An Eyewitness Report From the Frontlines of Humanity. By Jan Egeland. Simon & Schuster. 253 pages. $27. Jan Egeland is a former United Nations undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs. In his more than 25 years of humanitarian work, he ha...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
WINDY CITY: A Novel of Politics. By Scott Simon. Random House. 420 pages. $25. You don't have to be a political junkie to appreciate this wickedly funny, gossipy, heartbreaking book. Imbibe in sips, however. Extended immersion may leave you numb, glassy-eyed and su...
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